Legend of the Seeker Season 2 Richards Lament

Chosen to protect the world from evil, Richard contemplates the problems caused by his efforts to save the midlands. Watch the video above. This is a nice promo video for Legend of the Seeker Season 2 from Richard's perspective.

I love the part where the ghost of Darken Rahl says "We are brothers after all." This helps to confirm what was in the books.

Legend of The Seeker Season Two Cactch Up Video

Season Two Catch up Video In 4 Minutes

This is a great summary of the season with out giving the big ending reveals. Check out the video above.

Exploring Legend of The Seeker Season Two

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Legend of The Seeker is fantasy series based on Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth novel series. Season two appears to cover books two and three "Blood of the Fold" and "Stone of Tears" in which we will see the split and infighting of The Sisters of the Ageil, the return of Darken Rahl from the underworld and the discovery of a new Lord Rahl.

Legend of the Seeker Season one is one of the best produced shows currently on TV from stellar acting, breathtaking action sequences, awe inspiring scenery, and very good story. It is a must see for any fantasy / sword and sorcery fans. I would also highly recommend this show to any SF fans if for nothing else then to see what a good show should look like.

Season Two is unfortunately not as strong as season one. They establish high stakes and an all important quest. Then the story meanders around the country side taking on more of an episodic TV feel rather then a continuous show. On the plus side the show gets better toward the end of the season as they get back on plot.

The show also has a rushed feel to it which left me with an incomplete feeling like they just skipped large parts of the story. I expected large parts of the book to be skipped like they did with season one after all 22 one hour episodes is not enough time to cover two books. The problem is that season one proved that they can do it and do it brilliantly.

Legend of The Seeker Season Two will air on November 7, 2009 and run weekly for the 22 episodes.

Being an independent production that is nationally syndicated it will appear on different times and stations across the country.

With ABC behind the distribution they played a lot of games with the distribution putting episodes are on an 8-day delay delay for Hulu viewing so I watched it streaming through Netflix.

This was a disappointing and frustrating addition to the viewing experience. It's another example of the big studios not getting it.

Our three favorite characters will be returning: Kahlan Amnell played by Bridget Regan (on left). Richard Cypher played by Craig Horner (center). Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander aka "Zedd" played by Bruce Spence (right). We will also get to see a lot more of the Mord'Sith, I'm hopping to find out what happened to Denna as well.

Legend of the Seeker Cara in Season 2

Legend of the Seeker season one last few episodes introduced us to Cara, a Mord'Sith. We get more about her character from an interview video with the actress of Cara, Tabrett Bethell. Watch the video above.

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I like how the video shows clips of the conflict that we will get to see early on in season two with the split in the Sisters of the Agiel. She will team up with the Seeker, Confessor, and Zed as they try to close the tear in the veil.

They are also planning on playing off of Cara's use of her sexuality and the tension that will create between Richard and Kahlen. This should be a lot of fun since Kahlen can't give Richard everything he wants from their relationship for fear of taking Richard's soul, aka confessing him. Cara on the other hand can give Richard everything he wants from a relationship and has already attempted to tempt him in the past.

Cara's journey will be a humanizing one. This is really promising and could help to further the myth of the redemption of the goddess. I can't wait for season 2 to start up on November 7th.

We know there is a tear in the veil leading right into the underworld. The Skrin are attacking, and they look really good. The Keeper of the Underworld is in play. The Stone of Tears is the only way to repair the veil. Zedd: "He who possesses the stone will be able to repair the veil."

The Wizards second rule: Greatest harm can come from the best intentions.

Review: Legend of the Seeker 121 Fever

Kahlan and Zedd fall victim to a horrific plague unleashed by Darken Rahl as part of his desperate attempt to find the Three Boxes of Orden. Watch the episode streaming online above.

Fever is a stellar example of the high quality of Legend of the Seeker excelling in cinematography, acting, effects, choreographing, story, and pacing. This episode really featured Jennsen and Darken Rahl yet still contained many shinning moments for Richard, Kahlen, and Zedd.

In Fever we get a big reveal about Darken Rahl and Richard... kind of. I have mixed feelings about how this was done on the show. For readers of the book this is the reveal they have been waiting to see. They say the words but wrap them in a situation that has much doubt cast on the truthfullness of the reveal. The writers have said that they changed some things in their adaptation of the book in order to give suprises to those already familar with the tale and I must say this act was a brillant way of tipping their hand without showing us any of their cards.

I really enjoyed the moments when we get to see the heroes and villans in a more mythic manner. Throughout the series the writers have done a great job distinguishing the heros from the villans through demonstrating Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy on the courage of the blood verses the courage of the knife which is discussed in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. In short form: the strong (heroic) are willing to die for what they beleive in and the weak (villanous) are willing to kill for what they beleive in. Throughout this series Kahlen, Zed, and Richard have shown their strength through their fearless facing of death putting themselves at risk for what they beleive in whereas Darken Rahl is willing to kill others for his beleife fleeing when things get tough. Fever is great at exemplifying this through the plagued village and everyones behavior surrounding it espically Kahlen, Zed and Darken Rahl.

One funny little short note and a question for those who have watched Fever. There is a moment with Jensen eating red berries in the woods. I thought that you aren’t supposed to eat something red in the midlands. Do you think this was a blooper, lucky break for Jennsen, or a symbol of the changes that the midlands are going through?

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Likes

The acting is great

The cinematography was really good they even did a washed out look for the scenes in the village of the sick and the red x on the door is disturbing.

Next Week:Reckoning

The moment of truth comes for Richard to unleash the power of the three Boxes of Orden and face Darken Rahl once and for all.

Spoiler Alert

Discoveries

Mord Sith are headed by Mistress Cara and are called the sisters of the Agiel.

Boxes of Ordin:

The only way to defeat Rahl is to put the 3 boxes together at the full moon.

Richard must learn to possess the power of Ordin and not the other way around.

Ordin is an insatiable wolf only one power can touch the beasts heart and tame it. A touch of love, the confessors touch would counter balance the power of ordin allowing the user to be safe neither fully confessed nor controlled by the box.

Darken Rahl: unleashed a plague on the village only the seekers head would get Rahl to unleash them.

The lienage of Rahl is maybe revealed the writers leaves it vague wether he is telling the truth or not.

Panis Rahl the father: a cruel bloodthirsty tyrant who conquered the lands. He slept around and sired Richard and Jennsen making all three of them siblings. Rahl killed his father to end his cruelty.

Fire Feaver:

a magical plague with disturbing black veins in it victems the welts and finally death.

Review: Legend of the Seeker 115 Conversion

Review of: Legend of the Seeker: Conversion
Overall Rating: 9

Richard's attempts to rescue his friends from a sadistic wizard's deadly experiments send him into his first explosive face-to-face confrontation with the evil Darken Rahl. Previously on Legend of the Seeker Darken Rahl establishes a foothold in the Seeker’s hometown, Richard, Kahlan and Chase must journey through the boundary to save Hartland from the forces of darkness. Watch the episode streaming online above.

What I loved in this episode

Learn about ancient alchemy tools and what creations they have brought about.

Teleportation exists… cool

The tensions put up in this episode where you end up rooting for multiple sides and yet know some have to fail.

I loved how we get to learn more about Darken Rahl and see how he isn’t just a stock standard evil lord but someone who cares deeply for the safety of his realm.

The fight between Darken Rahl and the Seeker

See the Con Dar… The Confessors Blood Rage!!!!!!!!

What is Zeddicus up too?

Spoiler Alert

I love the tension set up throughout the story of this episode by having both a set of guards and the seeker seeking after the death of Rahl yet having to work against each other because the particulars of the plans are in conflict.

The dark wizard is trying to make a confessor!

The wizard made a potion to make a person immune to the confessors power… crazy that could mean hope for Richard and Kahlan’s relationship.

How did you like the look of the Con Dar scene? Were you blown away when she shot the needles into the wizards chest?

Do you think Richard should have kept the elixir… could you have given it up knowing what would be given up?